Can't decide which calc you want?

[AlienCC]

[SilverCalcKnight]

Thanks for the info, AlienCC.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[samnmax777]

Technically the 86 hasn't "officially" been discontinued, but it's so obsucre that it might as well be. Although I don't see why, I find it easier to use than the 83 series, on top of that, it's still more powerful mathematically without extra progs/apps. Overall the only issue I have with it is that it seems to be less stable with asm than the 85, don't know if you would really consider that a con.

[SilverCalcKnight]

Finished update. : )

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[leofox]

You say the 86 supports apps, but it doesn't have flash archive right?

You could also note that it has a lot more RAM.

[Ray Kremer]

[SilverCalcKnight]

Thanks again for the info. I've been neglecting this lately.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[Newbie]

My 83+SE did not come with a silver link but a black one.

[DigiTan]

TI-82
Pros:
+ Cheap (MSRP: $77)
+ Wide availability
+ 28.8KB RAM
+ Wide documentation
Cons:
- Inactive development community
- No Flash ROM (meaning no archive space, not much memory)
- No USB port (meaning you have to use the I/O cables)
- Slower than the late models
- Very limited grayscale
- Usually overlooked

[SilverCalcKnight]

Thanks, DigiTan. Looks like this is finished. Thanks to all who helped make this list great.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[IAmACalculator]

Well, there's still the TI-73 Explorer, and the relatively unknown TI-92 II, which no one really cares about, but meh. It looks great!

[SilverCalcKnight]

TI-92 II=TI-92
Just a hardware change.

TI-73 is there, I think.

-=SilverCalcKnight=-

[IAmACalculator]

TI-108 = TI-89 Titanium, just a hardware change.

73 is there, 73 Explorer is not. Of course, no one would want to buy one of those instead of an 83+.

[DarkerLine]

I'm pretty sure the 73 and 73 Explorer are essentially the same. They have the same manual. On the cover, it says:

[SilverCalcKnight]

[IAmACalculator]

Now that I think about it though, it doesn't really matter. It's a calc buying guide, and you'd be hard pressed to find one of those.

[magus57]

[Recursive Acronym]

Actually...
The TI-83 has built in support for asm. 85 has hacked asm. The 73 is the exact same as the 73 Explorer, and has 8 app spaces. Whatever the heck about "limited grayscale" on the 82 is just out of place and confusing. And the 82, 83, 83+, 85, and 86 all have the same processor, so speeds shouldn't be much different except that the algorithm in the ROM may be faster. I don't know, but I'm almost certain that the 82 has hacked asm. I think that the 82 thru 84 or even the 81 thru 84 have the same general style of interface, just with new features as the number increases. Also, you should make a distinction between Flash and RAM among the 83+/84+ line, adding that all the calcs in the 83+/84+ line have the same amount of usable RAM, just the archive is different. The 83+ SE and 84+ SE have 94 app spaces. The 84+ has 30 spaces. The 83+ has 10. Thus, the 83+ SE has 9.4, not 10, times the archive of the 83+.
A source:
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/si...e/download.html
You may want to add this url to the guide:
http://www.datamath.org/
After going to that site, click Album, then Graphing/Symbolic Calculators.
Also, Wikipedia has some good articles.

[DigiTan]

The TI-82 display isn't mapped to RAM meaning it has to be updated using a slower port-based method (either the built-in ROM call or the slightly-faster routine included in the shell). Any full-screen grayscale will flicker unless you're doing a still image--and even then, it's still noticeable. Limited grayscale.

[AlienCC]

The Ti-85 and Ti-86 are still superior to the Ti-82/3x/4x line in almost every way. Especially if you like fluid graphics for your gaming pleasure.

Don't forget to respect the Ti-85, without it the other models surely wouldn't have asm included as they now do. After all it started this whole community of asm calc programmers in the first place.

--AlienCC